Narochnitskaya E.A. – candidate of sciences (Ph.D in history), Department of West Europe and America, INION RAS, leading researcher, President of Analytics research centre, Foundation of historicalperspective, Head of the Paris section of the Institute for democracy and cooperation.
The article adresses the concept of separatism and its meanings, focusing on the relationship between separatism, secessionism, autonomism and euroregionalism. Contrasts between autonomism and separatism (secessionism) are particularly emphasized as well as similarities and differences between separatism and a new postmodern regionalism.
Separatism, secessionism, autonomism, regionalism, euro-regionalism, secession, autonomy, ethnic conflict, border change, legality of separatism, legal separatism, unconstitutionality of secession, quasi-separatism, postmodern separatism.
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